Osmos: Tips for a Long and Happy Life

Osmos is just like real life; you float around absorbing biophobes, trying to avoid getting pulled into a giant sun; and just like real life, some tips on sub-nuclear physics and orbital mechanics would probably come in very handy. These tips will help you progress from being wonderfully average, to a little better than average.
Osmos [...]

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The Physics of Osmos Contest

Over on the Physics of Osmos blog they have an Osmos competition. Create a one-minute video illustrating the physics concept that you discover in the game. The top entry will win a $500 gift card to Amazon.com. The top three runners up will also receive prizes.

Steve Jobs the master of orbital dynamics

To submit your entry, follow [...]

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Osmos wins Apple Design Award 2011

Another woah! for Osmos and Hemisphere; Osmos has won the Apple Design Award 2011!
There were twelve winners, just three in each category of iPhone, Mac, Student and iPad, which was Osmos’ category.
Eddy from Hemisphere attended to pick up his award of Apple hardware and metallic cuboid that glows when you touch it. We look forward to seeing [...]

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Mat Jarvis / High Skies Interview with GFBRobot

There’s a new interview over on GFBRobot (Giant Fire Breathing Robot!) where I talk about Osmos, favourite synthesizers and physics.

Visit GFBRobot to read the interview…

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Silk for iPad, Winners

Congratulations to the following who all won a copy of Silk for iPad…
Hector Lee
Dogglesnoffer
Bruce Wiggins
Many thanks to everyone who took time to leave a comment!
Silk is now available in the ipad App Store…

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Silk for iPad, copies to be won.

Add a comment below to win a copy.
Silk.
With the swish of a finger anyone can create beautiful, flowing art entwined with an ethereal soundscape, a world where riches of color spring from your fingertips.

The official app of www.weavesilk.com with millions of users.
Create gorgeous wallpapers with the swish of a finger.
Original music and sound [...]

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Near Silence: Artists for Japan, Red Cross

Near Silence, a free album for anyone who donates to the Red Cross Japan appeal.
A supercooled album fractured with exclusives, classics and the new.
Richard Barbieri has exclusively re-recorded his classic Japan track ‘The Experience of Swimming’; Charles Webster has donated an exclusive mix from his brand new January Tuesday project, which was only recorded last week; and Eno [...]

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Mat Jarvis interviews… Wolfson Music, Think Before Type

A couple of recent interviews with
Wolfson Music: Interview with Mat Jarvis of Gas/High Skies
Think Before Type: Geek Music – Osmos / High Skies / Mat Jarvis – An Interview
There was a third, but I’ve just checked the link and the site seems to have collided with a dematerializer.

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Osmos: End of Year Awards

What a year Osmos has had! No1 in the iOS App Store and Apple’s iPad Game of the Year(!) as well as the PC/Mac/Linux version selling 250,000 copies in a week in the Humble Indie Bundle just before Christmas.

Hemisphere Games, the creators of Osmos, have posted some of the end of year awards it has [...]

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Free Gas & High Skies Tracks

Free Gas and High Skies tracks for all customers and subscribers to our occasional newsletter.
High Skies – The Good Earth mp3 (click to play snippet).
This is an old unreleased Gas track from around 1998. It’s a micro track at only 43 seconds long, that’s why the preview clip above is so short. A broadcast from Apollo [...]

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